After posting the Sands of Time Desktop, its creator (Ian Michael Smith) posted a video tutorial demonstrating how to recreate the effects. In that video was a really cool browser start page. This is that start page.

Once you download it, customization is very easy. Just edit the index.html file included in the package with your favorite plain text editor. You can add your own links and edit the categories to the start page just by making changes in the html file. You can also change bg.jpg to another image if you'd like a different background. When your finished, save the files somewhere locally (or on a remote web server, if you'd prefer) and set that location to your start page. That's all you have to do to get this really awesome start page up and running.